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Topic: North and Central Vanuatu languages

	Ethnologue: Vanuatu
		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, Malekula Coastal.
		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, Central Vanuatu.
		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, East Santo, North.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Vanu.html (2813 words)

	Oceanic subgroups
		Austronesian languages are spoken from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, and from Taiwan and Hawaii in the north to New Zealand in the south.
		He maintains that speakers of languages outside the Western Oceanic group migrated from the area in which POC was spoken, and that the languages of the Western Oceanic group evolved by a process of dialect differentiation from that point on.
		North and Central Vanuatu: Extensive surveys of all the languages of Vanuatu by Tryon (1976) and of the languages of south Malekula by Charpentier (1982) now provide a firm platform for comparative work to be built on.
	www.tlg.uci.edu /~opoudjis/Work/Oceanic_guide.html (5840 words)

	Ethnologue report for Vanuatu
		Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, West Santo Nearly extinct.
		North Pentecost (Raga, Whitsuntide Island) and southern Maewo (Aurora) Island.
		Classification: Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, North and Central Vanuatu, Northeast Vanuatu-Banks Islands, East Vanuatu Nearly extinct.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Vanuatu (2583 words)

	Peace Corps
		The prehistory of Vanuatu is obscure; archaeological evidence supports the commonly held theory that peoples speaking Austronesian languages first came to the islands some 4,000 years ago.
		The majority of Vanuatu's population lives in isolated rural areas, with the urban centers of Port Vila and Luganville increasing in size rapidly.
		Vanuatu is at a pivotal point in its young history making the delicate transition from a largely self-sufficient agriculture based economy to one that is more market-oriented.
	peacecorps.gov /index.cfm?shell=learn.wherepc.pacificislands.vanuatu (295 words)

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	www.abbyy.com /ocr_products.asp?param=2292 (2884 words)

	List of official languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Macao (for Chinese language, both Cantonese and Mandarin are spoken de facto; co-official with Portuguese)
		The official language is decided by a majority of the states whose official languages are declared; English is the first language by custom and majority.
		NOTE: Whether Galician is in fact a language, or a dialect of Portuguese, is a matter of debate among linguists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_official_languages (832 words)

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		North Korea maintains one of the world's largest standing armies and militarism pervades everyday life.
		North Korea watchers believe that one of Mr Kim's three sons will become the dictator's anointed heir.
		But official North Korean accounts say he was born in a log cabin at his father's guerrilla base on the country's highest mountain - an event marked by a double rainbow and a new star in the sky.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1131421.stm (860 words)

	Pimsleur languages
		The Chinese language, spoken in the form of Standard Mandarin, is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, as well as one of four official languages of Singapore, and one of six official languages of the United Nations.
		Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and is an official language in Ticino and Grigioni cantons of Switzerland.
		Standard Swedish is the national language that evolved from the Central Swedish dialects in the 19th century and was well-established by the beginning of the 20th century.
	pimsleur.english-test.net /pimsleur-languages.html (5947 words)

	A Diversity of Written as well as Spoken Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is a well-known fact that hundreds of languages are spoken around the world, but we in the digital publishing and document imaging industries often do not take pause to consider that written and published documents exist in all of these languages as well.
		Dungan A sino-tibetan language spoken in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
		Kabardian An abkhazo-adyghian (caucasian) language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia (Mozdok), Adyghea and nearby regions of Krasnodar and Stavropol regions.
	www.planetdjvu.com /a_diversity_of_languages.htm (2991 words)

	Vanuatu map and information page by World Atlas
		Located directly west of Fiji, Vanuatu is famed for gorgeous islands, active volcanoes and a very-intact Melanesian culture, especially on Tanna.
		Climate Vanuatu's weather is warm and humid, but winter temperatures do moderate some because of the prevailing southeasterly trade winds.
		Note that Vanuatu's seasons are just the opposite of those in the Northern Hemisphere, as Spring is (Sept-Nov), Summer is (Dec-Feb), Fall is (Mar-May) and Winter is (Jun-Aug).
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/oceania/vu.htm (497 words)

	Languages. The World Factbook. 2003
		Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language) spoken by 35% of the population
		French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
		English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
	www.bartleby.com /151/fields/37.html (1758 words)

	University of Melbourne ePrints Repository - Topics in the grammar and documentation of South Efate, an Oceanic ...
		This thesis presents topics in the grammar of South Efate, an Oceanic language of Central Vanuatu as spoken in Erakor village on the outskirts of Port Vila.
		The present research is set in the context of increasing attention being paid to the state of the world's smaller languages and their prospects for being spoken into the future.
		In addition to providing an outline of the grammar of the language, I describe the process of developing an archivable textual corpus that is used to make example sentences citable and playable, using software developed in the course of the research.
	eprints.unimelb.edu.au /archive/00001551 (468 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for Vanuatu
		Data accuracy estimate: A2, B. The number of languages listed for Vanuatu is 110.
		[ENG] 1,900 in Vanuatu (1995), 1.1% of the population.
		[FRN] 6,300 in Vanuatu (1995), 3.8% of the population.
	www.ethnologue.com /14/show_country.asp?name=Vanuatu (2447 words)

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		This should _not_ be taken as liberty to remove those characters from the language, but as a reminder that if it is great trouble to use the charsets that cover the complete language, a smaller character set may be used without causing grievous harm to the expressive power of the writer.
		Note, however, that a lot of languages permit the dropping of accents on upper case characters where it would be considered improper to drop them on lower case characters.
		Languages for which no such exact information is known are listed at the end of the tables.
	www.alvestrand.no /ietf/lang-chars.txt (2717 words)

	Language families, groups, subgroups of languages.
		Languages spoken in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad: Biu-Mandara, Masa, Hausa, Bole, Tangale, Angas, Yivom, Fyer, Ron, Bade, Duwai, Boghom, Guruntum, Zaar
		Languages of the Andaman Islands in the gulf of Bengala
		Language spoken in the Hunza valley, in Pakistan.
	www.planetservices.it /english/language-family-groups.htm (715 words)

	1000Countries.com: Central African Republic: population, area, statistics, maps, flags, religions, languages, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The former French colony of Ubangi-Shari became the Central African Republic upon independence in 1960.
		Central Africa, north of Democratic Republic of the Congo
		Subsistence agriculture, together with forestry, remains the backbone of the economy of the Central African Republic (CAR), with more than 70% of the population living in outlying areas.
	www.1000countries.com /central_african_republic.html (1101 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Korea, North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After failing in the Korean War (1950-53) to conquer the US-backed Republic of Korea (ROK) in the southern portion by force, North Korea (DPRK), under its founder President KIM Il-so'ng, adopted a policy of ostensible diplomatic and economic "self-reliance" as a check against excessive Soviet or Communist Chinese influence.
		North Korea's long-range missile development, as well as its nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs and massive conventional armed forces, are of major concern to the international community.
		North Korea, one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, faces desperate economic conditions.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/kn.html (1686 words)

	General work on languages of Vanuatu
		Melanesian sailors on a Polynesian sea: maritime vocabulary in Southern Vanuatu.
		Tryon, D.T. Stem-initial consonant alternation in the languages of Epi, Vanuatu: a case of assimilation?.
		C-94:239-258 * Examines consonant alternation in verb-initial position in the languages of Epi as well as some other central Vanuatu languages and concludes that the phenomena are independent parallel developments.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /SpecialProj/VAN/general.html (1036 words)

	Technical Specifications Recognition Languages - ABBYY Fine Reader Corporate Edition
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		A turkic language spoken by Uighurs in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang of northwestern China and in portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, and Kyrgyzstan.
		A programming language named in the honour of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, developed by Niklaus Wirth of the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland, in the late 1960s.
	www.abbyy.com /finereader8?param=44919 (2851 words)

	General work on languages of Vanuatu
		The national drink and the national language in Vanuatu.
		On the relative instability of tina- ‘mother’ in the languages* of eastern Oceania.
		On the origins of the possessive markers in Central Pacific languages.
	www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au /thieberger/vanlangs/GENERAL.HTM (1259 words)

	Vanuatu travel guide
		Vanuatu is a group of 83 islands in the South West Pacific, North East of New Caledonia and North West of Fiji.
		The Ni-Vanuatu, as they are known, are peaceful, gentle people, in a country of unique and diverse customs and culture.
		Additional travel guides are available in ten languages at wikitravel.org.
	www.world66.com /australiaandpacific/vanuatu (148 words)

	1000Countries.com: Vanuatu: population, area, statistics, maps, flags, religions, languages, information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Supreme Court (chief justice is appointed by the president after consultation with the prime minister and the leader of the opposition, three other justices are appointed by the president on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission)
		Vanuatu does not have an embassy in the US; it does, however, have a Permanent Mission to the UN Diplomatic representation from the US:
		This South Pacific island economy is based primarily on small-scale agriculture, which provides a living for 65% of the population.
	www.1000countries.com /vanuatu.html (1170 words)

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		World Countries: flag, latitude and longitude, total area, total population, population density, capital city, languages, largest city (and its population), currency, UN membership date, GDP, GDP per capita, and contact info for your countries Mission in New York and Geneva.
	resourcehelp.com /qsergeography.htm (1147 words)

	Languages by Countries
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		Russian language - Russian language, also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic...
		David Gloss, valedictorian of the class of 2001 at Valley Forge Military Academy, works with new students from foreign countries at the school's English Language Institute in Wayne, Pennsylvania.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0855611.html (1400 words)

	Amazon.com: More Reflexes of Proto-Oceanic q in Vanuatu languages (1). (Squib). : An article from: Oceanic Linguistics ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)*
		Amazon.com: More Reflexes of Proto-Oceanic q in Vanuatu* languages (1).
		Although it has generally been assumed that Namakir is the only Vanuatu language that has a phonemic reflex of Proto-Oceanic q, recent data collected from a number of languages* in north-central Malakula show that *q is also reflected there, though it is lost in quite a number of words.
		Of interest is the fact that, in noninitial position, q merges with k, usually as x; but in initial position, *q is reflected as i, probably via intermediate y.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0008DR9DU?v=glance (281 words)

	"Hello" in 700 languages
		East) [response] Marhabtayn Arabic (North Africa, Middle East) Ahalan Arabic (North Africa, Mid.
		Bagesu (Central Africa) [answer] Natulire nili mlahi Bajawa (Indonesia) ['where are you going'] Male de?
		Bakitara (Central Africa) [answer] Ndabanta Bakitara (Central Africa) [after absense] Mirembe Bakweri (Cameroon) [morning] O wusi Balanta (Guinea-Bissau) Abala, lite utchole Balinese (Bali) Om swastyastu Balinese (Bali) [reply] Om shanti shanti shanti Balti (India, Pakistan) Yang chi halyo?
	boylan.interfree.it /misc/hellos.htm (985 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Vanuatu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		local languages (more than 100) 72.6%, pidgin (known as Bislama or Bichelama) 23.1%, English 1.9%, French 1.4%, other 0.3%, unspecified 0.7% (1999 Census)
		Jon Frum Movement [Song KEASPAI]; Melanesian Progressive Party or MPP [Barak SOPE]; National United Party or NUP; Union of Moderate Parties or UMP [Serge VOHOR]; Vanua'aku Pati (Our Land Party) or VP [Edward NATAPEI]; Vanuatu Greens Party or VGP [Moana CARCASSES]; Vanuatu Republican Party or VRP [Maxime Carlot KORMAN]
		no regular military forces; security forces comprise the Vanuatu Police Force (VPF) and paramilitary Vanuatu Mobile Force (VMF), which includes Vanuatu's naval force, known as the Police Maritime Wing (PMW); border security in Vanuatu is the joint responsibility of the Customs and Inland Revenue Service, VPF, VMF, and PMW (2003)
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/nh.html (958 words)

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